Wreaths Across America is the latest fundraiser for the Snohomish County Sea Hawkers — a chapter of the Seattle Seahawks Sea Hawkers Booster Club. Last week the club stood outside the 172nd Street and Highway 99 Walmart to collect donations for the event, which will place wreaths on the graves of veterans at Seattle’s Evergreen…
As the final resting place for hundreds of veterans, Abbey View Memorial Park in Brier was adorned in red, white and blue over the Veterans’ Day weekend as American flags marked the gravesite of those who had served. The 85-acre site, located on Alaska Road in Brier, is the final burial site of veterans who…
The Mountlake Terrace High School Holiday Bazaar welcomed more than 70 vendors and excited shoppers to the high school on Saturday. Tables and booths displaying food, crafts and wares were lined up in the school gym and upper floor hallways for the annual event. The event marks the start of a busy local bazaar season….
From David Carlos: Faces of Halloween at the Cedar Plaza QFC.
To get to Ringer’s Pub at Cedar Plaza. (Photos by David Carlos)
From Juley Petrowski: Fall foliage at Lyon Creek in Mountlake Terrace.
Photographer David Carlos notes you don’t have to go to the North Cascades Highway to see the fall colors. He captured a few locations around the city that put on a colorful show Sunday.
Now in its 25th year, the 4,400-square-foot Belltown P-Patch Community Garden is home to roses, nasturtiums, dahlias, tomatoes, artichokes and squash. Some of the vegetable harvests are for private use, while some go to food banks. People have to wait up to two years for a plot to become available so they have the privilege…
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Boy Scout Troop 60 spent Saturday volunteering to help Mountlake Terrace City staff clear the city’s storm drains. More than a dozen volunteers spent the morning learning about stormwater runoff and how it affects the environment. The scouts then helped city staff clean the storm drains around the city, including near the Town Center and…
Eating chicken feet has been on my list of things I’d like to try but am too…chicken…to try. It’s ranked up there with skydiving and dancing: If I have to, I’ll do it. But I will worry about it until the actual act. Yet here I am, in front of King’s Barbecue House at the…
Publisher’s note: David Carlos often takes photos in Edmonds, Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace, but he occasionally submits photo essays capturing interesting places and events nearby. So we’ve given these essays a name: Just Around the Corner. Here’s his latest, on Seattle’s Reckless Video. I wandered into the Reckless Video store for the first time…
Photographer David Carlos was on hand to capture moments from the Edmonds Dick’s Drive-In car show, held in honor of the drive-in’s 65th anniversary this year. The Edmonds location — the only one in Snohomish County — is on Highway 99 just north of 220th Street Southwest. “It’s not about cars, it’s about people,” Carlos…
Wednesday, I visited Northgate Mall for the last time. The 70-year-old mall, the very first to be called a “mall” in the country, has fallen on hard times. The internet has taken over as the marketplace of consumers. I’ve been coming here for 50 years; not so much recently. (Yes, I guess I was part…
Ninety-two years after Charles Lindbergh flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic, another Spirit of St. Louis took to the skies for the first time Sunday. The new Spirit, perhaps the most painstakingly detailed replica of the original, flew at 7 a.m. on its maiden flight at Arlington Municipal Airport, with approximately 50…
From photographer David Carlos, an eagle keeps an eye on the sunset over Lake Ballinger Saturday.
Members of the Ballinger Organic Garden hosted a summer cleanup/fall planting event Wednesday night. Volunteers did a lot of weeding, saved cosmo and calendula seeds, planted carrot, lettuce, cucumber and zucchini seeds, and planted cauliflower, leek, cabbage, winter savory and flower starts. The group also pulled out some plants that were fading in the summer…
Crews began demolition of two vacant houses at the northwest corner of 240th Street Southwest and 55th Avenue West in Mountlake Terrace this week in preparation for the construction of 19 townhomes at the site. According to the city’s Department of Community and Economic Development, plans for the half-acre site call for the construction of…
